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Mimeta forsteni Bp. (3-209.) Ceram Oriole. 
Mimeta forsteni Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. p. 346, 1851 : 
Ceram. 
Distr .— Ceram. 
Family SPHECOTHERIM. 
Genus SPHECOTHERES * V. 
Sphecotheres Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. p. 42, April 14th, 1816. 
Type (by monotypy): Sphecotheres viridis Vieillot. 
Picnoramphus Rosenberg, Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. vol. xxix. p. 143, 1866. Type 
(by monotypy) : P. cucullata Rosenberg. 
Sphecotheres vieilloti V. & H. Fig-bird. 
Distr. — Eastern Australia and New Guinea. 
Sphecotheres vieilloti vieilloti V. & H. (3-224.) 
Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
vol. xv. p. 215, Feb. 17th, 1827 : Keppel Bay, Queensland. (Fig. 
Gould, iv. pi. 15 ; Math. ix. pi. 419.) 
Sphecotheres australis Gould, Birds Austr. pt. xxx. (vol. iv. pi. 15) March 1st, 
1848 : South Queensland. 
Distr. — Mid and South Queensland. 
Sphecotheres vieilloti canicollis Sw. 
Sphecotheres canicollis Swainson, Anirn. in Menag. p. 320, Dec. 31st, 
1837 : New South Wales. 
Sphecotheres virescens Jardine & Selby, Illustr. Ornith. vol.ii. pi. 79, July, 1829: 
New South Wales (not Vieillot, Gal. d’Ois. pi. 147, 1823.) 
Distr. —New South Wales and Victoria. 
Sphecotheres vieilloti boweri Math. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris boweri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 63, 
April 7th, 1916 : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Distr. —North Queensland. 
Sphecotheres vieilloti stalkeii Ingram. Doubtful Fig-Bird. 
Sphecotheres stalkeri Ingram, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xxi. p. 100, 
May 30th, 1908 ; Mt. Elliot, Townsville, North Queensland. 
(Fig. Math. Suppl.) 
Distr. —Townsville, North Queensland. 
* Sphecotheres maxillaris Gray, Genera Birds, vol.i. p. 231, Dec. 1845, and of recent, 
authors, is not Turdus maxillaris Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. p. xliii, 1801 (c/. 
Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 139, pi. 6, 1918). 
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